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Read Ebook: Notes and Queries Vol. V Number 127 April 3 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men Artists Antiquaries Genealogists etc. by Various Bell George Editor
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NOTES:--
Bonaparte and Lord Whitworth, by Lord Braybrooke 313
Notes on Prynne's Breviate, by Archbishop Laud 314
Epitaph on Voltaire 316
The Miller's Melody, Fragment of an Old Ballad 316
Minor Notes:--Dr. Johnson, a Prophet--Coleridge and Plato--Epitaph in St. Giles' Church, Norwich--Hair in Seals--To "eliminate" 317
QUERIES:--
Algernon Sidney, by Hepworth Dixon 318
Old Irish Tales 318
Political Pamphlets 319
Minor Queries:--The Book of Nicholas Leigh--Gabriel Harvey's Notes on Chaucer--The Cholera and the Electrometer--Terre Isaac--Daundelyon--Mallet's Death and Burial--Classical Quotations in Grotius--The Authorised Version--Rector's Chancel--Duchess of Lancaster--Cheke's Clock--Ruthven Family--"The Man in the Almanack"--Arkwright--Burial, Law respecting--Mr. Borrow's Muggletonians--Puritan Antipathy to Custard--"Corruptio Optimi," &c.--Miss Fanshawe's Enigma--Mary Ambree 319
MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Sir W. Stanley--Mires--Somerlayes --Wyned--Cromwell Family--Beholden--Men of Kent and Kentish Men--Bee-park--A great Man who could not spell--Glass-making in England--Eustace--Mas--John Le Neve--Meaning of Crow 321
REPLIES:--
Presbyterian Oath 323
The Old Countess of Desmond, by the Knight of Kerry 323
Shakspeare's Sickle or Shekel 324
A few more Words about "Dulcarnon," by S. W. Singer 325
English Surnames, by Mark Antony Lower 326
Rev. John Paget 327
Letter to a Brigadier-General 328
Maps of Africa 329
Replies to Minor Queries:--James Wilson, M.D.--History of Commerce--Ecclesiastical Geography--Butts Family--Friday at Sea--A Pinch of Snuff from Dean Swift's Box--English Translation of the Canons--Few Descents through a long Period--Tandem D. O. M.--Land Holland--Arc de Arbouin--Derivation of "Martinique"--Bigot--Davies Queries--Fawsley, Heraldic Atchievement--Old Scots March--Periwinkle--Erasmus' Paraphrase--"Black Gowns and Red Coats"--Arms of Manchester--Sir Thomas Frowyk--John Goldesborough--Corrupted Names of Places--Story of Ginevra--Ornamental Hermits--Dr. Fell--List of Prothonotaries--The Vellum-bound Junius--Plague Stones--George Trehern--St. Christopher--White Livers--Torshel's Design to harmonise the Bible 329
MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 334
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 334
Notices to Correspondents 334
Advertisements 335
Notes.
BONAPARTE AND LORD WHITWORTH.
The Rev. J. Sanford has authorised me to place the following letter in your hands, in order that you may print it in "N. & Q." should it appear to be of sufficient interest.
BRAYBROOKE.
"I send you an account of the very memorable scene which occurred at Madame Bonaparte's drawing-room on the 13th of March, 1803. I believe I am the only living witness, as those who were near the person of Lord Whitworth were members of the corps diplomatique, Cobenzel, Marcoff, Lucchesini, all dead. Many years after I became intimately acquainted with the Marchese Lucchesini at Florence, when I had an opportunity of referring to that remarkable conversation.
"It was announced that Madame Bonaparte was to receive on the following Sunday, and it was reported that she was to have maids of honour for the first time; a little curiosity was excited on this score. The apartment of Madame B. was on the opposite side of the Tuilleries in which Bonaparte held his levees. I was acquainted with Lord Whitworth, who told me to place myself near to him, in order to afford facility for presentation, as Madame B. would occupy an arm-chair to which he pointed, and on each side of which were two tabourets. As all foreigners had been presented to General B. at his levee, his presence was not expected. The rooms, two in number, were not very large; the ladies were seated round the rooms in arm-chairs: a passage was left, I suppose, for Madame B. to pass without obstacle. When the door of the adjoining room was opened, instead of Madame B. the First Consul entered; and as Lord Whitworth was the first ambassador he encountered, he addressed him by enquiring about the Duchess of Dorset's health, she being absent from a cold. He then observed that we had had fifteen years' war; Lord W. smiled very courteously, and said it was fifteen years too much. We shall probably, replied General B., have fifteen years more: and if so, England will have to answer for it to all Europe, and to God and man. He then enquired where the armaments in Holland were going on, for he knew of none. Then for a moment he quitted Lord W. and passed all the ladies' addressing Mrs. Greathead only, though the Duchess of Gordon and her daughter, Lady Georgina, were present. After speaking to several officers in the centre of the room, which was crowded, he returned to Lord W. and asked why Malta was not given up. Lord W. then looked more serious, and said he had no doubt that Malta would be given up when the other articles of the treaty were complied with. General B. then left the room, and Madame B. immediately entered. As soon as the drawing-room was over, I observed to Lord W. that it was the first cabinet council I had ever witnessed; he laughingly answered, by far the most numerously attended. Lord W. then addressed the American Minister, who was very deaf, and repeated what had passed, and I perceived that he was very much offended at what had occurred. In justice to the First Consul, I must say that the impropriety consisted in the unfitness of the place for such a subject; the tone of his voice was not raised, as was said at the time. He spoke in the same tone as when he enquired for the Duchess of Dorset."
NOTES ON PRYNNE'S BREVIATE, BY ARCHBISHOP LAUD.
I have two Queries to propose; but before I can do so effectually, it is necessary to enter into an explanation and statement of facts, which may be considered as Notes conveying information which will, I anticipate, prove new and interesting to many readers of "N. & Q."
In his defence he turned this circumstance, and the use previously made of his Diary and Devotions during the course of his trial, very happily to account. After speaking of the means which had been used to frame the charges against him, how he had been "sifted to the very bran," he says:
Wharton adds this note:
"Next day the Archbishop, receiving the news that the bill of attainder had passed the House of Lords, broke off his history, and prepared himself for death."
He was beheaded the 10th day of the same month, January 1645.
The information I have to communicate, after this long preface, is, that a copy of this book of Prynne's, with marginal notes by the Archbishop, made apparently in preparation for the answer which he contemplated, is still extant; and I shall be thankful to any of your readers who can give any further information on the subject.
In this copy the notes are only a transcript from those made by the Archbishop; and partly, perhaps, owing to the narrow margin of Prynne's book, we have to regret that they are not more copious; but, such they are, they are of value, as throwing new light on some points of history; and they appear not to have been known to any of the biographers of Laud, or to those who, as Archbishop Sancroft and Wharton, sought most carefully after his literary remains.
The volume of which I speak is the property of an Institution at Warrington, "The Warrington Museum and Library," to which it was presented by Mr. Crosfield, of Fir Grove, Latchford, at the time of the library being established, in 1848, having been bought by his father at a book-stall in Manchester some years previously.
"In yt Breviate in which ye Archbp. has made , 'tis printed city, and in this place he has 'In my diary 'tis calicem. Note that....'"
Owing to the edge of the paper being worn, some parts of the note are lost; they have been conjecturally filled up by the words in brackets.
On the title-page is written, in a hand cotemporary with the transcript:
"Memorand. Mr. Prynn presented this worke of his to the Lds. Sep. 2nd, 1644, ye same day that ye poor Archbp. was to make his recapitulation, divers Lords holding it in their hands all the while, &c."
And beneath this, apparently in the same hand, is written:
"This I suppose was written by Mr. Dell, secretary to Archbp."
It is inferred that this memorandum had been made by Mr. Dell on the Archbishop's copy, and transcribed together with the notes.
Now the Queries I have to make are these three:
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